Viktor Likhonosov

Viktor Likhonosov
Born	(1936-04-30) 30 April 1936 Kemerovo, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Genre	fiction, memoirs, essays
Notable works	Unwritten Memoirs: Our Little Paris (1986)
Notable awards	Russian State Prize (1988)

Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (Russian: Ви́ктор Ива́нович Лихоно́сов, April 30, 1936, Topki, Kemerovo Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Soviet, Russian writer, laureate of the Russian State Prize (1988), the International Mikhail Sholokhov prize and the first Yasnaya Polyana award (2003).

Biography

In the 1960s Likhonosov, who was close to the Village Prose movement, was highly praised by Alexander Tvardovsky who published his debut stories in Novy mir. Tvardovsky saw the author as a Soviet heir to Ivan Bunin. In the mid-1970s, through Yuri Kazakov, Likhonosov met Boris Zaitsev and Georgy Adamovich and became deeply involved in researching the history of Russian emigration. Unwritten Memoirs: Our Little Paris, a 1986 novel dealing with the modern history of Russian Cossacks living abroad, is seen as his major work. Likhonosov resides in Krasnodar where he edits the literary magazine Rodnaya Kubanh.^[1][2]

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